Is Maine going green?

[Phil from Maine]

Is Maine really going green with the starting up of another windfarm project. New Englands largest windfarm went on line Thursday noon at Stetson Mountain.Produceing about 32 megawatts of power with the capacity to produce up to 57 megawatts by days end. This along with the Mars Hill farm that has already been running has made Maine the leader in the New England states.
The Stetson project alone could produce the equivalent of the electricity needed to power 23,500 homes and what would be produced by burning about 331,000 barrels of oil a year.This in turn will eliminate the emission of some 76,000 tons of carbon dioxide.
With alot more windfarms being built or are currently in planning the state plans on going as far as possible with windfarms.
State officials are also working to lure wind power turbine and blade manufacturers to Maine.
So it looks like some light maybe coming to the end of the tunnel. With in 3 or 4 more years the state will be going strong on wind power and hopes to attract more businesses into the area with these fast moving projects..

You can read about it here if you wish to..www.bangordailynews.com/detail/97865.

Being as independant as possible from foriegn oil is where it is at and I feel this is a good way to start..

[Knightia]

sounds good Phil.

State officials are also working to lure wind power turbine and blade manufacturers to Maine.

That be nice to- been seeing them beingshipped all over in my cross country travels a lotlately big old blades& towers.

We got a few farms already in the statehad- some for quite a few yrs now( some newerare just to sell the power to the greens in cali etc)
Think this county(natrona)will be getting a farm here soon to.

But dont ya want to move to detroit to make windmills or eltric cars?

[Knightia]

Back in Erie co, ny they use to make a lot of steel/brass etc etc- where i lived previous- between about 1960-80 or so they lost in the one county alone about 500,000 ppl ( and jobs)- thats about the population of this whole state.

[Knightia]

Being as independant as possible from foriegn oil is where it is at and I feel this is a good way to start..

Not to sound like im pickin on yer state - but i would think someone would have figured out a bit ago how to make power there by not burning oil

About 70 %( and we have quite a bit of it if ppl would let us drill it to)of our oil in the us comes from the us & all our coal does as far as i know. But im sure you saw old obamy say he is going to put"OUR"us coal ppl out of work.

[Knightia]

We have quite a bit of uranium hereif ya need any- let me know

[Phil from Maine]

Yeah, it does sound good and i hope it all works out well for us over here.

But dont ya want to move to detroit to make windmills or eltric cars?

No way! I was born here and love the deep wild woods up here!!

Back in Erie co, ny they use to make a lot of steel/brass etc etc- where i lived previous- between about 1960-80 or so they lost in the one county alone about 500,000 ppl ( and jobs)- thats about the population of this whole state.

This stuff has been ging on for along time now. We have seen alot of jobs go away as well. It used to be quite a booming little neighborhood here growing up. Now all we have is Wally World and not very much else.[:@]Maine is a realatively big state with it's population scattered about. The population is not very big either.

[Phil from Maine]

Not to sound like im pickin on yer state - but i would think someone would have figured out a bit ago how to make power there by not burning oil

Yeah, we tried nuke but that was the biggest flop we ever saw up here. Finally they tore it down and now are still trying to figure out what to do with all the waste from it. It was suposed to head to a desert out west and that didn't happen so it is sitting in drums wondering what to do with it now?

[Knightia]

Yeah, it does sound good and i hope it all works out well for us over here.

I do hope it works out to for yall to.


But dont get mad now- your states just not all that big a place- scattered -yes maybe- luckly for most of the ppl of the state of Ny- most( the bulk of )ppl live in nyc.

[Phil from Maine]

We have quite a bit of uranium hereif ya need any- let me know

About 25 miles across the river in New Brunswick, Canada they have a nuclear plant that may want it..We also have uranium not far from here at a mine they have been working. It is hard to get a mine up here though as the terrain changes to quickly.

[Knightia]

Yeah, we tried nuke but that was the biggest flop we ever saw up here

Didnt they read the plans & instruction booklets?( just dont get get ruskis to build in for you)

Dont understand that - but anyways good luck.